In honor of your departure, we have organized a transcontinental pub-crawl, commemorating some of your finest moments, and sewing a final sprinkling of joy across this country your father has so disheartened.

But Andrew Misell - the agency's policy officer - said that it was difficult to envisage a way that the event could be banned or limited, saying that it would not have a legal basis, adding that the organised pub-crawl "doesn't encourage a sensible attitude" to alcohol.